The Chinese Philosophy Of Fate

Author : Yixia Wei
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981104371X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Philosophy of Fate written by Yixia Wei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the study of the traditional Chinese philosophy, and explores the relationship between philosophy and people’s fate. The book points out that heaven is an eternal topic in Chinese philosophy. The concept of heaven contains religious implications and reflects the principles the Chinese people believed in and by which they govern their lives. The traditional Chinese philosophy of fate is conceptualized into the "unification of Heaven and man". Different interpretations of the inter-relationships between Heaven, man and their unification mark different schools of the traditional Chinese philosophy. This book identifies 14 different schools of theories in this regard. And by analyzing these schools and theories, it summarizes the basic characteristics of traditional Chinese philosophy, compares the Chinese philosophy of fate with the Western one, and discusses the relationship between philosophy and man’s fate.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004427570
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the issues hidden in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction.

Author : Christopher Lupke
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082487398X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magnitude of Ming written by Christopher Lupke and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as “command,” “allotted lifespan,” “fate,” or “life.” In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies to produce the first comprehensive study in English of ming’s broad web of meanings. The essays span the history of Chinese civilization and represent disciplines as varied as religion, philosophy, anthropology, literary studies, history, and sociology. Cross-cultural comparisons between ancient Chinese views of ming and Western conceptions of moira and fatum are discussed, providing a specific point of departure for contrasting the structure of attitudes between the two civilizations. Ming is central to debates on the legitimacy of rulership and is the crucial variable in Daoist manuals for prolonging one’s life. It has preoccupied the philosopher and the poet and weighed on the minds of commoners throughout imperial China. Ming was the subject of the great critic Jin Shengtan’s last major literary work and drove the narrative of such classic novels as The Investiture of the Gods and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Confucius, Mencius, and most other great thinkers of the classical age, as well as those in ages to come, had much to say on the subject. It has only been eschewed in contemporary Chinese philosophy, but even its effacement there has ironically turned it into a sort of absent cause. Contributors: Stephen Bokenkamp, Zong-qi Cai, Robert Campany, Woei Lien Chong, Deirdre Sabina Knight, Christopher Lupke, Mu-chou Poo, Michael Puett, Lisa Raphals, P. Steven Sangren, David Schaberg, Patricia Sieber.

Author : Franklin Perkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011760
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane written by Franklin Perkins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world. Perkins provides rich new readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects on their significance for Western philosophical discourse.

Author : Joseph R. Levenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136573089
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucian China and its Modern Fate written by Joseph R. Levenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965. These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Three includes: · Liao P'ing and the Confucian Departure from History · The place of Confucius in Communist China · Historical, moral and intellectual significance

Author : Joseph Richmond Levenson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucian China and Its Modern Fate written by Joseph Richmond Levenson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Eno
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438402082
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confucian Creation of Heaven written by Robert Eno and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating that the relation between practice and theory in early Confucianism is highly systematic, the author suggests that Confucianism represents a species of 'synthetic' philosophy, distinct from the analytical traditions of the West but equally rigorous in its attempt to disclose the foundations of understanding. He illustrates how theory served as an ancillary activity, expressing ethical insights derived from the systematic structure of core ritual practice, and legitimizing those insights in terms of teleological model of their efficacy in creating a divinely ordained political utopia. The central agenda of the early Confucians is pictured as the preservation and promotion of ritual skills and the aesthetic social perspectives they generate. Metaphysical and political theory serve as practical vehicles mediating between the skill-based philosophy of the early Confucian community and the changing features of the intellectual, social, and political environments in which that community had to survive.

Author : Joseph R. Levenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136573011
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucian China and its Modern Fate written by Joseph R. Levenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965. These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Three includes: · Liao P'ing and the Confucian Departure from History · The place of Confucius in Communist China · Historical, moral and intellectual significance

Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0192891774
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Thought written by Terence Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning over a thousand years from Homer to Saint Augustine, Classical Thought encompasses a vast range of material in succinct style, while remaining clear and lucid even to those with no philosophical or Classical background The major philosophers and philosophical schools are examined---the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Neoplatonism; but other important thinkers, such as Greek tragedians, historians, medical writers, and early Christian writers, are also discussed. The emphasis is naturally on questions of philosophical interest (although the literary and historical background to Classical philosophy is not ignored), and again the scope is broad---ethics, the theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, philosophical theology. All this is presented in a fully integrated, highly readable text which covers may of the most important areas of ancient thought and in which stress is laid on the variety and continuity of philosophical thinking after Aristotle.

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820030
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to the cause of philosophy. It is the first anthology of Chinese philosophy to cover its entire historical development. It provides substantial selections from all the great thinkers and schools in every period--ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary--and includes in their entirety some of the most important classical texts. It deals with the fundamental and technical as well as the more general aspects of Chinese thought. With its new translation of source materials (some translated for the first time), its explanatory aids where necessary, its thoroughgoing scholarly documentation, this volume will be an indispensable guide for scholars, for college students, for serious readers interested in knowing the real China.